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Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
This walk is just what I needed Mr. Dillon. I sure been sleepy today. You got spring fever Chester.
I guess so. It is nice weather ain't it? Won't be long now the cattle drive will be starting.
Yeah and the streets will be full of Texas cowhands looking for trouble. Yes sir. But you know I'm
almost looking forward to them this year. Now come July you'll be planning for this peace and
quiet. Maybe but not right now. Maybe I'll just stop by the Tonsorio Mr. Dillon if it's all right
with you. Sure, well what for? Well like you said it's spring they got a bath there besides it's
time to get unsold. You better leave them on we might have a late frost. I don't know I'm beginning
to itch some and I... hey what's that crowd in front of Long Branch? I don't know. I mean it's
supposed to be Mr. Dillon. Hey maybe it's a medicine show. Well let's go take a look huh?
Well whatever it is that that fellow sure has drew a crowd and that's a fact. Uh-huh. There he is.
Miss Kitty's talking to her. Yeah. Well guess there can't be no trouble. Oh hello Matt. Oh Kitty. Hey Marshal.
You come to have your picture took too? The Marshal look real smart in a tin type. You tell him to.
So that's it you're taking pictures huh? That's right Matt. This is Professor Jacobi. He calls
himself an artist of the camera. Well forevermore. So this is one of them things I've been hearing
about. That's right. Keep your hands keep your hands off it my good man it's a very sensitive
instrument. Oh yes sir I'm sorry. Well you're Marshal Dillon I take it sir. That's right. Well
I'm glad to meet you Marshal. I was coming to look you up directly. Quite naturally you're one of the
subjects I most wish to immortalize with the camera. Oh is that so? Certainly certainly. Western
Marshal is one of our great heroes back east. Yeah you don't say. Oh yes yes sir. Say uh yes
Professor what is it? What's that little tin for? Oh that's where I do my developing sir. Oh developing?
Oh of course. Pyro and soda you understand. Well. And the plate must be developed immediately before
it dries. Oh. Now miss. Well I'm as ready as I'll ever be. Stand aside. You'll just relax miss. I'm not
going to shoot you you know. Okay. Let me see. Now that's not precisely what I'm after. What we need is another
subject. I beg your pardon. Oh another person. Ah you sir would you step up please. Yes me. You.
How you like that? He's gonna immortalize old toad. Just come right over here. That's it. Now miss if you'll just
stand beside him. Him? Well anything for art's sake you know. We want this to look absolutely authentic.
I think I'm gonna like this Miss Kitty. Now don't go getting any ideas toad. Ah that's fine. That's fine. Now miss if you'll just look up at him with that.
Well you know what I mean. No I don't know. Well. Professor why don't you just take your pictures of
people the way you find them. They'll be authentic. Of course Marshal I meant no offense. Go ahead professor.
Yes of course. Hey where's he going? Ducking under that black cloth there. You're gonna have a hard time crawling into that little box.
That's good now. Don't take your eyes off the camera and don't move a muscle while I'm counting. You understand?
Uh huh. All right take a big breath. Hold it. One Missouri. Two Missouri. Three Missouri. Four Missouri. Five Missouri.
Missouri. Seven Missouri. Eight Missouri. Nine Missouri. Ten Missouri. Eleven. Good. Good.
Well eat that stuff Mr. Dillon. You know I want to see that picture Kitty. You look like the camera was a rattlesnake.
It might as well have been. I'm glad it's over. And now Marshal. Marshal maybe you will apply.
Well no thank you professor. Maybe later. And perhaps I'll take one of these gentlemen here.
Uh you sir. You look like a gunfighter. Grubs may try to look and act like a gunman professor but he's not very desperate.
Oh I see. Well perhaps you have someone in your jail Marshal. No not at the moment.
I know what the eastern public wants sir. What it wants to see. Dancehall girls and desperados gunfighters.
Savage Indians. The violence of the west. And it's the violence I'm after most of all. That's what will sell my photographs.
Professor then all you have to do is wait. Wait for how long? Maybe a few weeks when the trail herds start coming.
I haven't got a few weeks Marshal. Then I guess we can't help you. Well don't worry Marshal I'll manage.
No. How? You'll see. I'm a man of ideas Marshal.
That whistling man Bobby Haggard really started something.
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Good morning Sam.
Good morning Marshal.
Good morning Max.
Ah hello Kitty.
Ah if you mind if I sit on?
I haven't yet have I?
Ah.
Well what are you grinning about?
I saw your picture.
What was that you said to me about rattlesnakes?
Oh yeah that was pretty bad wasn't it?
Well maybe if you didn't have to hold still for so long.
Sure. Anyway you're immortalized now.
The professor will have your face all over the papers back East.
If they'll print it.
Matt seriously.
Hmm?
I don't like that man.
Oh?
There's something about him. I don't know what it is.
Oh he seems all right Kitty. Maybe you're just not used to photographers.
Well neither are you.
Mr. Dillon?
Ah yeah Chester.
Mr. Dillon you better come.
Ah what's the matter?
Out at the end of Bridge Street they just found old Toad. He's dead.
Dead?
But that ain't all he's been scalped.
Oh.
What do you make of it Matt?
I don't know Doc.
Neither do I.
There hasn't been any Indian trouble lately.
Surely no Indian come this close to town.
Doc it wasn't an Indian.
That's not the way they use a knife.
Well then who did do it Mr. Dillon?
Old Toad wasn't much good but he never hurt nobody.
There's another funny thing Matt.
Doesn't look like it was done right here.
But like it was done over there by that building.
And then he was dragged out here into the open.
Yeah out in the open.
End of the sunlight.
Yeah wait a minute.
What are you looking for Mr. Dillon?
Yeah this right here Chester.
Well I...
I'm looking for a place to put my camera.
Oh.
Well I...
I don't see nothing.
Those three little marks on the ground there.
You know what makes marks like that?
No what?
The three legged stand they use for a surveyor's instrument.
Or a camera.
Camera?
Matt.
No man would do that.
Just for a picture.
Well there's one way to find out.
Come in. Come in.
Ah Marshall.
Ah Professor.
Looks like you're packing.
Are you going someplace?
Yes. Yes Marshall. I've covered Dodge pretty thoroughly.
Now I want to go out onto the plains and get some pictures.
Indians. Aren't you leaving kind of sudden?
What do you mean? I've been planning to go down into the Indian territory.
They might be pretty dangerous right now Professor.
Oh I'm not timid Marshall.
Oh I know that.
But did you hear there's Indian trouble starting?
The man with a scalp this morning right here in Dodge.
Yes I heard something of it.
But I'm not frightened.
Why not Professor?
Because you know it wasn't an Indian that did it.
Just what do you mean Marshall?
I'm not afraid of anything.
What do you mean Marshall?
I'd just like to know how you were able to get there
and take a picture at Toad before anybody
else knew anything about it.
Perhaps I was just lucky Marshall?
I met the man who found him.
I think it was more than luck.
Are you accusing me of killing that man?
Maybe you didn't do it yourself.
But I think you hired it Don.
Can you prove that?
I can when I find the man you hired.
The whole thing is ridiculous Marshall.
Besides he was nothing but a scavenger, a derelict.
He was a man and it was murder.
Whoever did it will hang for it.
Well it's no concern of mine.
Unless of course I can take a photograph of the hanging.
You'll do anything for a picture won't you?
Well almost anything Marshall.
Like I told that girl.
Anything for art's sake.
And that was a good picture I got of Toad Marshall.
And I'm not afraid of anything.
I'm not afraid of anything.
That's a good picture I got of Toad Marshall.
Perhaps you'd like to see it?
No thanks.
Well it's going to be quite a feather in my cap
when I take it back east to Harper's.
Maybe you won't take it back east Jacobi.
This might be one picture you paid too high a price for.
Matt, why didn't you lock him up?
I got no proof against him Doc.
Unless I can find a man who actually did it.
And I got no idea who that is.
Jacobi's been seen around town with a lot of men but nobody's special.
He's liable to skip town on you.
Well I hope so.
What's that?
Well I figure he's going down into Indian territory.
He won't go alone.
Even he's not that foolish.
And a logical one to go along with him is a man he's already hired to do a job for him.
Yeah that's so.
Anyway it's the last chance I got.
The town sure stirred up about it.
You'd never thought old Toad had a single friend.
Sure they're upset. They think it was Indians.
And the professor put the picture on display in the window of the Dodge house.
Did you know that?
Yeah I heard.
And maybe it was him started to talk about calling the cavalry out against the Indians.
Well he'd like nothing better than an Indian war to photograph.
What kind of a man is that?
I don't know Doc.
Mr. Dillon, Moss Grimick says the professor left town just before dawn this morning.
Alone?
Nope, Tom Grubbs was with him.
Tom Grubbs.
Sure, a two bit would be gunning.
Alright, now all we gotta do is catch up with him.
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I don't like it Mr. Dillon.
I don't like it Mr. Dillon, I don't like it a little bit.
What Chester? All this Indian sign.
You just keep your eyes open, we'll manage.
I guess Jacobi will be happy, you should be getting all the pictures he can use.
I notice he's stopped several times.
Pictures? I hope I never meet another photographer.
Maybe they aren't all like him Chester. Well I hope not.
Hold up Chester.
What Mr. Dillon? Something over in that clump of weeds there.
Marshal, Marshal.
What man? A white man, Mr. Dillon is robbed.
Yeah, come on.
Marshal.
Mr. Dillon, he's been hurt, bad.
He's bleeding? Yeah, he's been knifed.
Help me Marshal.
Where's Jacobi?
Over there, somewhere I don't know, I ran into him.
What happened?
Indian, Cheyenne.
I told Jacobi but he wouldn't listen.
I tried to tell him but he wouldn't listen.
Told him what?
About the burial ground, bad enough just being here.
And then him trying to take pictures of the Cheyenne.
There was only three of them.
But when he saw him taking the picture of the burial ground,
My goodness, that's bad Mr. Dillon.
They get awful mad when somebody flew around the burying place.
What did they do Grubbs?
He attacked us.
Fought one of them off and then they ran and hid.
I guess they couldn't find me.
Grubbs, why don't you tell me about it?
About what?
About Toad.
Alright, I'll tell you.
The professor gave me a lot of money.
I guess I shouldn't have done it.
Marshall?
Yeah.
I didn't even get my picture took.
Ain't that...
He sure was some gunman.
Killing a helpless little old man for money.
Yeah.
Now let's see about Jacobi now.
Hey Mr. Dillon, you think them Cheyenne might still be around?
No, they just showed up by now Chester.
There's the burial ground.
Hey look, there's his camera.
Yeah, all smashed.
And his pictures?
All scattered around with it.
My gracious.
Chester, over here.
That ain't a nice sight, is it Mr. John?
No.
There's a kind of justice in it Chester.
Yeah.
They did to him just what he had Grubbs do to old Toad.
Well we better bury him.
Then maybe we better gather up those pictures.
What for?
We'll send them back east for him.
Maybe they'll be immortal like he hoped.
Who knows, he might turn out to be a big hero.
And wouldn't that be something?
Yeah.
Not that there have been heroes like that before.
Alright, come on.
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Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald,
stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal.
The special music for Gunsmoke was composed and conducted by Rex Corey.
Sound patterns by Ray Kemper and Bill James.
Featured in the cast were Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartel, and James Nusser.
Harley Bair as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty.
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